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History's Greatest Hoaxes

Name: History's Greatest Hoaxes
Released: 2016

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2016-2016
1 Season
Netflix
Documentary

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History's Greatest Hoaxes looks at some of the most spectacular hoaxes that show that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. It looks at remarkable hoaxes including the Hitler Diaries, the Piltdown Man, the War of the World broadcast, Papillon, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Alien Autopsy film.

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Tom Ward

Self - Narrator

Guy Walters

Self - Author & Historian

Linda Papadopoulos

Self - Psychologist

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Episode 1

The Hitler Diaries

History's Greatest Hoaxes looks at the case of the Hitler Diaries which purported to be sixty-two volumes of Adolph Hitler's personal journals. Convinced of their reality, Rupert Murdoch paid over a half a million dollars to publish them. The hoax turned out to be one of the greatest scam ever done to a newspaper.

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